REDUCE Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8523.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CASTEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 90, May 23, 2024, Page H3524):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 3 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To require Electricity Transmission Organizations to allow bids from aggregators of certain retail electricity customers, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 23, 2024 ↗

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  239 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8523, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8523

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 16, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d46cd60cd8d1ccea074fcf708a782dd9638a07f9382a18309b6c8d1206cf792c

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of January 16, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8523, last updated January 16, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.